Students on the Up Learn platform have answered over three million quiz questions and watched millions and millions of minutes of videos. We have managed to combine insights from the Up Learn platform with conversations we have had with thousands of students. The result is that there have been three clear strategies that have led…
Amidst the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, our health service has been doing everything possible to help us. To help them, we are extending our scholarships programme to provide NHS staff with full Up Learn licences for their children, free of charge. This way, NHS staff can focus on saving lives, without having to…
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by failing to attempt.” – William Shakespeare The fear of failure and the myth of errorless learning Why are we so afraid to make mistakes? Part of the answer can be traced to our remote past when we were more concerned…
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso The Not So Model Student Jack is a model student. He attends all his classes and takes notes in them. He reads all the textbook chapters he’s assigned and highlights the key passages. But when…
“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re probably right.” – Henry Ford What is it you’ve always struggled to learn? Whether it’s an apparent incompetence with languages, ineptitude with numbers or inability to recall the details of an insightful book, we’ve all experienced frustrations with learning. If only more people knew that the…
Recently, psychologists have conducted a study in which they watched small children playing with jigsaws. The findings show us something really interesting: by the age of 4, a large proportion of little kids would rather do a jigsaw they’ve done before – and be able to do it successfully – than try a jigsaw they…
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein You’re doing it wrong For most of my life, I’ve been learning the wrong way and the chances are you have too. For me, studying at school and university mostly involved long periods of time reading textbooks, highlighting…
